Singing sand, also called whistling sand, barking sand, booming sand or singing dune, is sand that produces sound. The sound emission may be caused by...
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The Singing Sand Dunes (Chinese: 鳴沙山 Ming Sha Shan) in Dunhuang, China, are the sand dunes that, when the wind blows, give out a singing or drumming sound...
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Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are...
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Sand Mountain is a singing sand dune 20 miles (32 km) east of Fallon, Nevada along U.S. Route 50. The dune is two miles long and 600 feet (180 m) high...
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Mingsha Shan (鳴沙山, meaning "Singing-Sand Mountain"), named after the sound of the wind whipping off the dunes, the singing sand phenomenon. Dunhuang commands...
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Dune (redirect from Sand dune system)
stovepipe Ice dune List of landforms Masseira Médanos Sandhill Sand wave Singing sand Strand plain Jackson, Julia A., ed. (1997). "Dune [geomorph]". Glossary...
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of singing sand. Behind the sand dunes lie ponds and marshes forming an important wildlife habitat. Almost all of the area of the Sarugamori Sand Dunes...
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Flaming Cliffs, Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park and Khongoryn Els - The Singing Sand Dunes. The Dalanzadgad Airport (ZMDZ/DLZ) has one concrete runway. It...
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tradition of `azif al jinn (عزيف الجن) is linked to the phenomenon of "singing sand". In the "History", Alhazred is said to have been a "half-crazed Arab"...
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extreme northwest Georgia) Sand Mountain (Florida), a hill in Florida Sand Mountain (Nevada), a singing sand dune in Nevada Sand Mountain Volcanic Field...
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